Always wanted to be first, always seem to be a bridesmaid, LOL. Good idea Bret, see what others are doing. Gary...
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George
yahglabelle
Dec 3, 2010 3:27 pm
Guess I'm runner up (as usual ;-) I'm in Aloha Or, 15 Mi. SW of Portland Oregon. I have a roll-off roof observatory (10' x 12') which is usable around here for...
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psjshep@...
psjshep...
Dec 3, 2010 6:03 pm
Hi, I'm in snowy Lincolnshire, east UK (nr. Peterborough) I have a roll-off roof obsy too (10 x 6), a brand new SXVR-H16 (still trying to sell the H9) & a...
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bretm151
Dec 4, 2010 2:17 am
Greetings all: Thanks for the testing and logs so far on 1.3.3. Good news reported: - crashes at startup related to locale seem to be gone - Cameras connected...
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bretm151
Dec 4, 2010 2:29 am
I might as well join the intro party. I'm in Fort Collins, CO and have a Celestron CPC-800 + wedge + Hyperstar III + M25C and guide with the SX piggyback...
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gbealnz
Dec 4, 2010 7:58 am
Well we are spread far and wide, US, UK, and me in NZ, all over the place. I have just tried the 1.3.3 driver, and with my SXVR M25C it seems to work OK,...
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bretm151
Dec 5, 2010 8:43 pm
I have uploaded v1.3.4 to the website (which is in the Links section of this group if you don't have it handy). This should (hopefully :-) fix the problem of...
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asdog_513
Dec 5, 2010 10:43 pm
Am currently running a SXVF-H9C on a CGE-1100 with Hyperstar, a shorttube 80mm guidescope and an Orion Starshoot autoguider. Software is IP (with Bret's...
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PHIL
phil7417
Dec 7, 2010 7:50 pm
- Well, the Temperature readout works perfectly with the SXVR-H16 - Nice 1 - The 2nd camera (Lodestar) still has to be unplugged else, despite the s/w...
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Bret McKee
bretm151
Dec 7, 2010 9:11 pm
Phil: Thanks for the feedback - comments in line below. - Well, the Temperature readout works perfectly with the SXVR-H16 - Nice 1 ... Nice to hear that. ... ...
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gbealnz
Dec 7, 2010 9:51 pm
Sounds like I am not the only one then, good. I tried IP (demo beta) last night, but couldn't get the M25C to show, as IP always picked up the Lodestar as...
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PHIL
phil7417
Dec 7, 2010 9:52 pm
No probs... although we are down to -6 degrees here atm, it's clouded out just now... I'll give it a go at the next chance - I will be away this weekend -...
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bretm151
Dec 10, 2010 6:05 am
I have uploaded a new version of the sxASCOM driver. There have been a bunch of changes since the last version, and I probably broke a few things that used to...
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gbealnz
Dec 10, 2010 7:35 am
So far so good, it seems to work OK during daylight. I am all set up, and will try it in an hour or so, and report back. Gary...
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PHIL
phil7417
Dec 10, 2010 10:56 pm
... Still works fine. ... - Whilst the Lodestar is still plugged in, using ASCOM as Main camera & original driver as 2nd Camera - works fine; didn't before. -...
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bretm151
Dec 11, 2010 7:40 am
Phil: Thanks for the message. There were a couple things that were not clear to me from the log and your descriptions, and I would like a bit more information...
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PHIL
phil7417
Dec 15, 2010 4:54 pm
Sorry for not getting back to you sooner, Bret - my obsy computer is out of action for the moment - being relocated into a new chassis... should be back again...
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bretm151
Dec 16, 2010 5:13 am
... Phil: No problem - let me know when you get back to it. If you think of it when you do, can you take an exposure with the Lodestar and send me the log for...
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Phil
phil7417
Dec 22, 2010 6:49 pm
Hi Bret, 'puter back up & running. Only Lodestar connected: 1. Connect -> SCOM -> SX Main Camera 2. Binning x1 -> 10s exposure 3. Disconnect I have created a...
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Phil
phil7417
Dec 22, 2010 7:07 pm
I repeated the previous method, but with Astroart V4 this time. In the files section, Phil's Documents: 10s, x1 Binning, Astroart :...
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bretm151
Dec 24, 2010 12:06 am
Folks: I was thinking about release plans for the sxASCOM driver, and here is what I came up with. Comments are very welcome. When this group was created I...
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bretm151
Dec 24, 2010 12:06 am
Folks: I was thinking about release plans for the sxASCOM driver, and here is what I came up with. Comments are very welcome. When this group was created I...
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Phil
phil7417
Dec 24, 2010 12:19 am
Hi Bret... More & more people have 2 cameras these days, and those which have an SX camera *tend* to have either an SX Guide cam or a Lodestar (cert. with the...
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Bret McKee
bretm151
Dec 24, 2010 1:07 am
Phil: Sorry - I completely forgot to mention the SX guide camera (the piggyback guider) in my previous post. You are right that lots of people tend to have an...
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bretm151
Dec 26, 2010 6:16 am
I have posted a new version of the driver. This adds a setup wizard so that it can assign reasonable names to the driver instances. While it is always a good...
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bretm151
Dec 26, 2010 6:42 am
I just posted a message to the starlightxpress yahoo group entitled "Lets talk about binning" that I would encourage everyone here to respond to. Thanks, Bret...
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Terry Platt
tcplatt
Dec 26, 2010 9:30 am
Hi Bret, There is a hardware binning restriction on the SXVF and SXVR cameras, owing to the way that the horizontal clock is generated. The maximum horizontal...
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bretm151
Dec 31, 2010 6:23 pm
Some testing I did "under the stars" made me realize that in this release I have broken the ability to connect to an SXV autoguider. I have a fix (also made...
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bretm151
Jan 3, 2011 4:42 am
I have posted a new version of the sxASCOM driver. This version corrects the problem introduced in V1.3.6 that broke SXV guide cameras. The biggest changes in...
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bretm151
Jan 3, 2011 5:25 am
I have been corresponding with Tim Long of the ASCOM project, and he has created a project for the sxASCOM driver as part of the ASCOM Jira issue tracking...
